While debates about the economy, unemployment and the effectiveness of the stimulus plan continue to rage throughout the country, their appears to be a bright spot for proponents of clean energy… heave-ho.org | All the news that’s fit to click.™
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Photo via Charles and Hundson We already knew that the stimulus bill included provisions to weatherize homes and government buildings across the country. photo: Steve Jurvetson via flickr The latest allocation of funds from the stimulus bill by the Department of Energy has been announced. This time it’s for biofuels and in the amount of $786.5 million. Here’s where it’s all going:… Amtrak in Illinois will receive $80 million in federal stimulus money to modernize train repair centers as well as to improve security and wheelchair accessibility. That’s according to a statement Wednesday from U.S. FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson has quietly resided in Princeton, N.J., on the wooded former farmland that is home to his employer, the Institute for Advanced Study, this country’s most rarefied community of scholars. Lately, however, since coming “out of the closet as far as global warming is concerned,” as Dyson sometimes puts it, there has been noise all around him. Chat rooms, Web threads, editors’ letter boxes and Dyson’s own e-mail queue resonate with a thermal current of invective in which Dyson has discovered himself variously described as “a pompous twit,” “a blowhard,” “a cesspool of misinformation,” “an old coot riding into the sunset” and, perhaps inevitably, “a mad scientist.” Dyson had proposed that whatever inflammations the climate was experiencing might be a good thing because carbon dioxide helps plants of all kinds grow. After much clamoring by energy hawks , who knows what it was that finally brought high-speed rail to the stimulus — perhaps a little nudge from ol’ Amtrak Joe ? — but it got in, to the tune of $8 billion Billions to boost energy efficiency and clean up toxins? After eight dark years of Bush, environmentalists can hardly believe their eyes. View post: A big green cheer for the stimulus bill Highway construction in the 30s Ryan Avent thinks its time to get serious about energy. Making the rounds of a lot of design websites right now is this ingenious parking system. Many municipalities do not allow front yard parking, so this system drops your Porsche into an underground parking space and leaves only a green roof visible to the public. While most of the posts ascribe it to a London resident, TreeHugger Bonnie notes that she saw it a couple of years ago at the Chelsea Flower Show, and last year it was at the Hampton Court Flower show, set up as a bit of serious greenwashing by Porsche… |
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